Eliot would go further and say that there is no common form of modern speech, and that's the problem.

艾略特涉及的更加深入,他认为谈话并没有什么通常的形式，而这就是问题所在。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

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